The war between the Zionist regime and the Arab states lasted for more than half a decade. The consecutive defeats the Zionist regime experienced, after that, upon the confrontation with the Axis of resistance and not having attained the desired objective pushed the Zionist regime and its allies to change their strategies. This regime and its trans-regional allies decided to refrain from direct confrontation with the Axis of resistance and pursued the strategy of “Proxy war” against this axis. In order to put this strategy into effect, the best choice was to stir up unrest and sectarian war in western Asia.

Proxy War in the Rings of the Resistance Chain

From the perspective of the theorists of the Israeli-Western thinking rooms, the rings of the Resistance chain should be escalated into a war of attrition with terrorism, one at a time. In the words of the former United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, the U.S. played a great role to aid the empowerment of this terrorist group in Sinai.

In this context, a brief description to the axis of resistance is necessary. In the past decade, the conditions in the region has changed in favor of the resistance axis. Iraq, Iran’s regional ally and a country where Shiites are the dominant population, since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein got closer to Iran. A few years before the outbreak of terrorism, Syria was considered the golden ring of the chain of resistance against Israel. However, Israel and its regional allies could not tolerate this fact, so these two countries were plunged into a spiral of international extreme terrorism. The region was set ablaze until, the in the context of the Islamic Awakening, the shiite people of Yemen reached power bringing the resistance axis to the peak of power. However, this was against the will of the Israeli supporting powers. In the following we will describe some of Israel and the arrogant powers’ stage layouts:

The crisis started in Syria and it was further intensified with the burst of international terrorism. The support of these terrorists by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates along with western states with the U.S. in the forefront gives the impression that they are willing to exploit them as a tool to confront their enemies. The crisis in Syria offered the required platform for the Arab states, who fear from the Islamic Awakening, to destroy the golden chain of the resistance chain through the potential of their western allies. Therefore, they did not have a choice better than launching a proxy war to hurt the resistance axis by eliminating the most important member of this coalition. The proxy war to be set against Syria was the best choice because it did not involve direct military intervention, the charge of public opinion’s opposition and with exploitation of extremist groups.

This project was launched concomitantly with terrorist attack on Lebanon and Syria. The presence of Hezbollah in Syria was the pretence for the attacks the burst in Lebanon. However, due to the Hezbollah’s supremacy in Lebanon, the project was destined to fail in this country. On the other hand, the most brutal terrorist groups trained in regional countries engulfed Syria into a proxy war.

However, the aforementioned countries did not achieve their goal, the disintegration of the Resistance axis, in the set time, hence they tried to take the crisis into another ring of the resistance chain namely Iraq. With the entrance of terrorism into this country, the terrorist group ISIS was demonstrated. This terrorist group was financially supported by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, while Turkey provided the military support. Within few days, Al-Anbar province was engulfed in the crisis, after that Al Mousel was attacked. The remnants of Saddam Hussein aided in the fast spread of this group in these regions.

The absence of unity among the political factions, the betrayal of some of the Iraqi militants, and the atmosphere of fear and horror created, within few month ISIS terrorist group was able to occupy Jalola, Al-Saadia cities and Dyala province. ISIS was even 48 kilometers from the Iraqi-Iranian borders.

Following these events, terrorist group supporter from regional states as well as their trans-regional allies started discussing the autonomy of Iraq’s Sunni regions in international communities. The clearest example of it, are efforts to provide ammunition support to Sunni tribes in Iraq without coordinating with the central government of this country. Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence was also whispered, and Benjamin Netanyahu was among the first people who supported the secessionist idea. Thereby, Israel was the most fulfilled regional state from the current crisis, because they have cause the chain of resistance serious domestic damages. Although to date, the Zio-Western project has been defeated in Iraq and it is unlikely to achieve its objectives.

One of the most recent western projects to block the expansion of the resistance axis is running in Yemen, and has turned the most serious proxy battleground in the region against the resistance axis. Saudi Arabia has also fell into the trap of sectarian war set by the U.S. and Israel. The U.S through the propaganda of Shia-phobia is deepening the Shia-Sunni divide; concomitantly through adherence to West Point’s proxy war strategy are trying to benefit from the conflicts in the region. On one hand they are deepening the divisions, on the other hand in international meetings, including the Camp David, they insist on selling weaponry in order to fuel their Arms industry.

The efforts to deepen the divide between the Palestinians is the last episode of this regional proxy war. Obviously the most important tool for achieving such a scenario, is exploiting ISIS the extremist takfiri group.

In this regard, Foreign Policy in an article on May 4th 2015 hint to Palestine’s reluctance to believe in the presence of the Islamic State in Palestine. The journal further added that ISIS statement says that the Palestinian authorities are wrong and disappointed.

In the context of disintegrating the axis of resistance and causing division among Palestinians, Reuter’s news agency addressed in an article that ISIS has committed the most brutal crime against humanity. The terrorist group released a video message that was recorded in Syria and addressed to the “tyrants of Hamas.” ISIS threatened to uproot Fatah and Hamas. “The rule of Sharia (Islamic law) will be implemented in Gaza, in spite of you. We swear that what is happening in the Levant today, and in particular the Yarmouk camp, will happen in Gaza,” ISIS militant said in the video.

It’s obvious that in every place a sign of resistance axis is seen, you should expect that a proxy war to stir up there; in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and even in the narrow 35 Km square are meaning Gaza. This is the Israeli strategy to disintegrate the axis of resistance.

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